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Music By Georges Bizet
Based on: the novel by Prosper Mérimée
Type of Musical: Opera
Opened: March 3, 1875
Theatre: Paris
Synopsis
The story of a worker in a cigarette factory who is arrested when she gets into a fight with one of the other girls. Placed in the custody of Don Jose, a soldier, she soon entices him into a torrid love affair, and they run off together. Carmen meets Escamilio, a toreador, and tries to get rid of Don Jose. In the final scene the jilted Don Jose stabs Carmen and kills himself.
Song List
- Prelude
ACT I
- Scene and Chorus . . . . . . ("Sur la place...")
- Chorus of Street-boys. . . . ("Avec la garde montante..")
- Recitative
- Chorus of Cigarette-girls . . ("La cloche a sonné...")
- Habanera. . . . . . . . . . . . . (L'amour est un oiseau...")
- Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ("Carmen, sur tes pas...")
- Duet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ("Parle-moi de ma mère...")
- Chorus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ("Que se passe-t-il donc là-bas?...")
- Song and Melodrama . . . . . ("Coupe-moi, brûle-moi...")
- Seguidilla and Duet. . . . . . ("Près des remparts de Séville...")
- Finale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ("Voici l'ordre, partez...")
ACT II
- Entr'acte
- Gypsy song . . . . . . . . . . . ("Les tringles des sistres...")
- Chorus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ("Vivat, vivat le Toréro!...")
- Couplets etc (including Recitative, Exit of Escamillo & Recitative)
- Quintet and Recitative
- Song (Canzonetta) and Recitative
- Duet . . . . . . . . . . ("Je vais danser en votre honneur...")
- Finale . . . . . . . . ("Holà, Carmen, holà!...")
ACT III
- Entr'acte
- Sextet and Chorus . . . . . . . ("Écoute, compagnon...")
- Trio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ("Mêlons, coupons...")
- Morceau d'ensemble . . . . . . ("Quant au douanier...")
- Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ("C'est des contrebandiers...")
- Duet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ("Je suis Escamillo...")
- Finale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ("Holà, holà Jose!...")
ACT IV
- Entr'acte
- Chorus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ("A deux cuartos...")
- March and Chorus . . . . . . . . ("Les voici!...")
- Duet and final Chorus . . . . . . ("C'est toi? C'est moi!...")
Misc. Show Information
Carmen is Bizet's masterpiece. Composed in 1873-74, with a superb libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, the opera was received coldly when it premiered the following year at the Opéra-Comique; audiences of the day were shocked by the raw passions given such vivid expression in Bizet's brilliant score. But Carmen has since become one of the most popular works in the repertory. Unfortunately, Bizet did not live enjoy the opera's enormous success; he died of a heart attack three months after its premiere, on June 3, 1875. He was only 36 years old at the time of his death.
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Added: Wed Jun 01 2005
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